It would be a great thing if the Minnesota Twins were to advance to the World Series this year. We’re getting way, way ahead of ourselves. But that’s what we do. We dream.

Target Field does not have a roof. That allows the ambient air to intermix freely with the fans. What will that air feel like Saturday Oct. 30 through Monday, Nov. 1? Those are the dates when the American League team is to host World Series games this year. Chances are the games will be at night, from 7 to 10 p.m., for television-ratings purposes.

Here are the Twin Cities temperature and wind data from those dates last year, according to the website wunderground.com.:

Between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Oct. 30, the temps held near 37 degrees but winds were steady at 17 miles per hour.

Between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Oct. 31, the temperature held steady at about 38 degrees with little wind.

Between 7 and 10 p.m. on Nov. 1., temperatures were close to 39 degrees with light winds.

Had those games been played at Target Field last year, fans and players would have been bundled up and a bit wind-chilled. If it happens here this year, it will be a good time to watch the action from under a heat lamp in the standing-room concourses.

There’s only one reasonable response to such meteorological data, as we see it.

Play ball!

VOTE SMART

Let’s vote. And let’s be smart. Project Vote Smart encourages both. It is a bipartisan, privately funded, non-profit organization that aims to empower voters with info on their elected officials: voting records, interest groups ratings, contributions, public statements and the like. Its website, www.vote smart.org, contains a ton of such information.

And Project Vote Smart says it will send out a sampling of these factoids, called the “U.S. Government Owner’s Manual,” to anyone who asks. Either go to the website or call 1-888-VOTE-SMART.

HELP IDENTIFY HER

We like to think we live in a civilized society. Finding the body of a murdered woman in a city park and not being able to identify her 10 years later — that undermines our comfortable assumptions.

We hope police in New Brighton get some help in identifying the woman found in a swampy area of Long Lake Regional Park on Sept. 15, 2000. They believe her death was a homicide but said her body was badly decomposed and could not be identified. This week, they re-released a composite sketch and again asked for help from the public.

UFO? LED. OK?

We have no official editorial position on lighted kites. So to those who are locked into a lighted-kite position, pro or con, please know that we come to the issue anew.

We did not actually know that kites were sometimes lighted until we read, in this newspaper, of a dispute involving a lighted-kite-flyer and local authorities. The flyer, Ernest Sawka Jr., 34, attaches tiny LED lights to the kite string and achieves an effect some of his St. Paul neighbors have confused with UFOs.

When he did so in the summer, police were called because locals thought the Martians were landing. Then police found out the kite-flyer was wanted on an unrelated misdemeanor theft warrant. Late Monday night, police heard UFO complaints again and said they found Sawka lighting up the skies again.

Sawka said he had just got out of the workhouse for the theft thing and went back to the lighted-kite thing.

The police said he did it to “get a rise out of the public” and cited him for various minor infractions. Sawka said he does it because “it’s cool” and not to get a rise out of anybody. He vowed to fight the citations.

As scribblers whose business is to get a rise out of the public, and who are often accused of sounding like people from Mars, we are now considering attaching tiny colored lights to our editorials.

In the meantime, we lean toward “it’s cool” when it comes to lights-on-kites.

OPINIONETTES

We send a shout out to Erin Dady. She has been St. Paul’s Director of Marketing under Mayor Chris Coleman, and shouldered a heavy burden during the Republican National Convention in 2008. Dady has been named Coleman’s Chief of Staff, replacing Sara Grewing, who was named City Attorney. We know her as a helpful and energetic city official and we wish her the best in her new position.

We also wish the best to Gopal Khanna. He will be leaving his position later this year as state of Minnesota’s Chief Information Officer, credited by Gov. Tim Pawlenty with helping manage the state’s information technology programs. He was the first to hold the position when named by Pawlenty in 2005. He has overseen tech planning and budgeting and has advised the governor on ways to reorganize government.

We bid farewell to television newsman Edwin Newman, who did much to purge our language of “inputting” and “accessing” and other bureaucratic assaults. Newman died in England at the age of 91. He wrote a book called “Strictly Speaking” that, for a time, made it unfashionable to cloak one’s thoughts in inflated jargon. And he was a great punster. He wrote about a man who returned from a walk in the rain, set his wet shoes on some old newspapers and said, “These are the Times that dry men’s soles.” Thank you, Edwin Newman.

Further, with support for the permanent unallotment of inputting and accessing, and incenting and impacting while we’re at it, Opinuendo sayeth not.

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